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  • WDBTA News: Message from the incoming WDBTA president

    7.23.2024 Dear Colleagues within WDBTA and DBT therapists across the globe I am honoured and delighted to have been elected as the first President of the WDBTA. My own journey in DBT began over thirty years ago when, as a newly qualified clinical psychologist, I was fortunate to be sent to learn DBT on only…

  • WDBTA News: Message from the transitional president

    7.23.2024 Dear DBT Community- We did it! Today, I write to you as the outgoing President of the Transitional Board of the WDBTA with feelings of pride and a deep sense of accomplishment. I am thrilled to announce that our organization’s transitional phase has successfully concluded, and the new WDBTA Board is now in place.…

  • DBT Training Standards and Domains

    Consensus documents regarding training standards and domains have been released- these documents are available at https://wdbta.org/training/

  • Upcoming WDBTA Research Consultation Meeting

    Dear DBT Researchers, The new World DBT Association Research Committee invites DBT Researchers to join a DBT Community Research Consultation meeting, in the spirit of the former “DBT Strategic Planning Meeting”. Please share this invitation with your colleagues who may be interested. The DBT strategic planning meeting is an interactive initiative for DBT researchers. This…

  • Welcome to the World Dialectical Behavior Therapy Association (WDBTA)!

    We are an expert-driven, transparent, diverse, inclusive and non-commercial organization, committed to the science, practice and delivery of DBT. We intend to protect the quality and standards of practice of DBT by developing and providing guidelines on training and certification of DBT while considering the currently established culturally diverse national standards of a given country…